Director, Fund Operations – Private Credit & Alternatives
Global role –Ireland based in our Letterkenny Office 2 days onsite a week.
The Opportunity:
PGIM Private Capital is seeking a Director, Fund Operations to provide senior operational and financial leadership across its global private credit and alternatives platform. This is a multi-strategy, multi-jurisdiction role with end-to-end ownership of fund operations – spanning financial reporting, valuation coordination, investor operations, tax, regulatory compliance and new product launch coordination – across the full fund lifecycle, from launch through wind-down.
The Fund Operations team is responsible for the financial oversight, controls and reporting of PGIM Private Capital’s fund complexes, including commingled limited partnerships, parallel, feeder and rated feeder funds, aggregator and co-investment vehicles, alternative investment vehicles, separately managed accounts, levered vehicles and regulated fund structures in the U.S., Europe, and offshore jurisdictions. Investors include subsidiaries of Prudential Financial, Inc. and unaffiliated U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors – public and private pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and family offices – as well as a growing base of wealth and retail investors.
Direct Lending – originates, underwrites and manages a portfolio of privately placed senior loans to middle-market issuers ($10–100 million of EBITDA), managed across successive fund complexes, levered vehicles, rated feeders, SMAs, and open ended vehicles.
Mezzanine – originates, underwrites and manages privately placed mezzanine and structured capital investments in middle-market issuers ($10–100 million of EBITDA), across multiple fund vintages.
Energy Mezzanine – originates, underwrites and manages mezzanine, structured credit and equity investments in North American upstream oil and gas and energy infrastructure companies through a dedicated middle-market energy fund platform.
Retail / Wealth – evergreen and semi-liquid vehicles for the wealth channel, including business development companies (BDCs), ELTIFs, UCIs and other regulated retail structures.
What you will do
Multi-strategy fund oversight
- Serve as a senior operational lead across Direct Lending, Mezzanine, Energy Mezzanine and Retail/Wealth products, ensuring consistent standards, controls and reporting across strategies, structures and jurisdictions.
- Oversee fund administrators, custodians and other service providers; set service expectations, resolve complex accounting matters and drive the timely resolution of cash, position and settlement breaks.
Financial reporting, audit and tax
- Review quarterly and annual financial statements, schedules of investments and supporting workpapers for private funds, feeder vehicles and SMAs.
- Lead the annual audit and tax compliance cycle across multiple fund complexes and jurisdictions, coordinating with external auditors, tax advisers and administrators, including tax returns, FATCA/CRS and W-8 validations, and foreign tax registrations.
- Oversee management fee, incentive fee and waterfall calculations, and the preparation of performance metrics and LP presentations for senior leadership, investors and other stakeholders.
Valuation
- Assist in the coordination of the valuation process in partnership with the investment teams, valuation committees and independent valuation providers.
Investor operations and product launch
- Assist in leading the operational workstreams for new fund and vehicle launches – structuring support, legal documentation review, administrator and bank onboarding, account opening and tax registrations.
- Oversee investor onboarding, AML/KYC, transfers and investor servicing in partnership with legal, compliance and distribution teams; respond to investor due diligence requests and bespoke investor reporting.
Regulatory, compliance and governance
- Support regulatory reporting, attestations and filings across applicable jurisdictions (e.g., SEC, AIFMD/ELTIF, Cayman and other offshore regimes), and engage with regulators, boards and governance bodies as required.
- Maintain and enhance the control environment, including cash and compliance attestations, LEI maintenance and policies and procedures.
Leadership and transformation
- Lead, develop and mentor a high-performing team and manage competing priorities across time zones.
- Drive automation, data and process-improvement initiatives (e.g., Power BI reporting, workflow tools, reconciliation tooling) to scale the platform.
- Collaborate with a global operations team across Chicago, Newark, London and Ireland, and lead ad hoc strategic projects.
What you will bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field; CPA, ACA, ACCA, CFA or equivalent preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of accounting, fund accounting or fund operations experience in financial services, including significant exposure to private credit, private equity or other alternative investment funds.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams across financial reporting, valuation, tax and investor operations.
- Deep knowledge of fund structures (LPs, parallel and feeder funds, AIVs, SMAs, BDCs, UCIs, ELTIFs and other regulated vehicles) and related accounting, tax and regulatory requirements.
- Experience with fund financing facilities, FX hedging, cash management and counterparty/collateral processes.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
- Strong executive presence and communication skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership, investors and boards.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Power BI. Experience with Alteryx, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Power Automate, Python, VBA, Aladdin, Wall Street Office encouraged but not required.
- A collaborative people leader who brings energy, positivity and sound judgement to a global team.
What will set you apart?
- Experience across multiple private credit strategies, such as direct lending, mezzanine, energy and retail/evergreen products.
- Experience supporting new fund launches.
- Familiarity with loan and portfolio systems such as Aladdin and Wall Street Office, or comparable platforms, and treasury management systems.
PGIM welcomes all applicants, even if you do not meet every requirement. If your skills and experience align with the role, we encourage you to apply.
What we offer you:
- Health Insurance: PGIM Ireland partner with Laya and BUPA to provide health insurance schemes that cover eligible employees day to day medical and hospital expenses.
- Annual Leave of 23 days at full pay.
- Pension Scheme: Members of the scheme can contribute up to 8% of salary per annum and PGIM Ireland matches contributions up to 8% of salary. Members can also make voluntary contributions to the scheme.
- Annual Bonus Programme & Shop LK Vouchers / CleverCards (subject to eligibility): Along with an annual bonus employees are rewarded with Shop LK Vouchers/ CleverCards which are paid tax free.
- Life Assurance: fully paid by PGIM Ireland, employees are covered from their start date and beneficiaries are provided with a lump sum of four times an employee’s salary.
- Education Assistance: PGIM Ireland have an Education Assistance Programme that reimburses eligible employees for furthering their education.
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PGIM Ireland is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of applicants’ gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the traveler community. PGIM Ireland's aim is to hire the best people for the open roles and all appointments will be made on merit.
Any offer of employment made by PGIM Ireland will be contingent on receiving satisfactory references. Applicants should be aware that background checks will be carried out on all candidates offered a position within PGIM Ireland.
